Elden Ring boasts around 30 different weapon categories, each with a variety of weapon options equipped with strong skills and novel movesets. Each weapon class has anywhere between four to 21 weapons with various stat scalings, allowing players to form many kinds of builds. If that’s not enough, FromSoft has also added what blades to let you change a weapon’s affinity and scaling to suit your stats. More or less all affinities are quite strong, but Occult affinity usually falls short as a result of being overshadowed by Blood and Poison affinities.

Even though Occult affinity might not be the strongest, it has a few pretty cool Ashes of War, like the Assassin’s Gambit, which lets you walk past enemies as if you are not there, the White Shadow’s Lure, which summons a feint spirit to attract aggression from humanoid foes, and the Lifesteal Fist, which sucks HP from the targets. While there are some HP recovery Ashes of War in Elden Ring like the Holy Ground and Prayerful Strike, they aren’t as cool as thrusting your fist inside an enemy to recover HP along with dealing damage.

Moreover, Lifesteal Fist is obtainable quite easily and early in Elden Ring. You don’t have to fight any strong bosses or make a long journey to get this Occult Ash of War. Follow this guide along to find the location of Lifesteal Fist.

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Ashes of War: Lifesteal Fist Location

Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist is a reward for breaking the Teardrop Scarab roaming near the Caelid Highway path located a little north of Astray from Caelid Highway North site of grace. You can use any kind of attacks to deal damage to the Teardrop Scarab and get the Lifesteal Fist skill.

Caelid is among the first few regions you will explore in The Lands Between. Even then, this area is unforgiving with its monstrous enemies and hellish atmosphere. If you haven’t made it to the Caelid yet, it is located just east of Limgrave. You can follow the path going east of Summonwater Village or take the three whirlwind jumps located north of the Third Church of Marika to enter Caelid.

If you follow the above route, you will find yourself at the Rotview Balcony site of grace. Next to this grace site is the Caelid Highway. Follow the path going east and then south to reach Caelem Ruins, then Smoldering Wall site of grace followed by Astray from Caelid Highway North site of grace. Just before here, you will hear the sounds of the Teardrop Scarab. Find and break it to get the Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist.

How to use Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist

Lifesteal Fist is a weapon skill limited to claws and fist type weapons only in Elden Ring. After you have obtained the whetblade from the cellar in Gatefront Ruins, you can rest at any site of grace and use the Ashes of War option to add skills to your weapons. Here is a list of all weapons:

• Hookclaws
• Bloodhound Claws
• Raptor Talons
• Venomous Fang
• Caestus Spiked
• Caestus
• Katar
• Iron Ball
• Star Fist

The Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist also comes as the default weapon skill for Clinging Bones. This fist weapon is dropped by Ensha of the Royal Remains, who invades you when you visit the Roundtable Hold after claiming one of the two halves of Haligtree Medallion.

Elden Ring

Platform(s)

PS5 , Xbox One , PS4 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , PC

Released

February 25, 2022

Genre(s)

RPG , Action

Developer(s)

From Software